There’s an easy answer: public financing of elections, or a merit-based and bipartisan selection process.

Over time, both parties consolidated power in the hands of the governor and a few powerful legislative leaders. Partly as a result, the ideological fringes within government grew more strident and potent, and chances for any lingering spirit of collaboration evaporated.

Wisconsin needs to close and replace the Lincoln Hills juvenile prison, and we need to do it now. Unfortunately, the bipartisan bill has turned partisan, and some lawmakers want to undermine progress for a press release.

It would be shameful if the Democrats, facing the opportunity of a lifetime in federal and state races, chose this moment to break up over self-imposed litmus tests.

RIP UWSP as you once were. You had a good run. Remember your champions now gone: Gov. Dreyfus and the late Bill Bablitch, your state senator and then Supreme Court justice.

Our GOP Attorney General continues to give these horrible corporate actors a pass by refusing to sue or join other states’ litigation.

Democrats and Republicans agreed on need to protect state’s environment. Not any more.

Trump’s one success has been in dealing with North Korea.

Her past views against abortion and birth control haunt her campaign.

Among politicians, it’s called earned media. And one way to earn media is through political stunts.

In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on Wisconsin’s GOP primary for the U.S. Senate.

The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Americans pay more for prescription drugs than any other country in the world. Here in Wisconsin, that cost is felt every

When the rare opportunity to pass conservative, market-driven legislation comes along that is so good even Democrats have to support it, we cannot pass up the opportunity. Ryan and Johnson should join Gallagher and pass the CREATES Act now.

Let’s take a quick look at how President Trump’s destruction of just a few Obama initiatives is adding to the country’s greatness.

Dallet has said she believes outside money has “bought and paid for” Supreme Court elections. If that is true, now that Eric Holder has written a big check, Democrats looking for favorable redistricting maps are holding a receipt with her name on it.

I have always believed it is vitally important to promote and grow the market for wholesome milk and other dairy products. Without controlling our production, we are destroying are markets with a flood of oversupply.

This move is the university recognizing the direction in which the world is headed. By expanding the STEM programs, it appears to be taking the steps to remain in the current era.